[Maas-devel] Fixing static DHCP

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 2014-05-22 15:27, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 22/05/14 12:41, Gavin Panella wrote:

>> At some point I think we want to be able to assign IPs to a *user*
>> rather than a *node* as well, to allow for floating VIPs. A table of
>> (user, optional-node, address) would allow us to model it I think.
>
> Please don't pre-assign IPs to a user. We DID discuss being able to add
> arbitrary nodes to the database, it would be entirely in keeping with
> this to allow the user to specify an IP address for a particular machine.

You may just be saying the same thing in different ways.

The way I understood Gavin was: "we want to allow users to allocate IP 
addresses and map them to NICs of their choice."  No pre-assignment.

We normally use the term "node" only for systems which are actually 
managed by MAAS.  So "assigning IPs to a user rather than a node" means: 
let users allocate IPs for systems that aren't nodes.


Jeroen